Monday Musings

2/23/2009 05:05:00 pm
BenefitScroungingScum
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A 5 year old girl with cerebral palsy is not entitled to an NHS powerwheelchair"Nothingeverhappens, nothing happens at all.The needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing along like before"

My daughter is pissed off with this new presenter - but only because she and the new bloke replaced Poi(?) and Chris, who she really liked. She either hasn't noticed or hasn't felt it worth mentioning the (lack of) arm. Given that she's 4, observant, perspicacious and precocious, I'm assuming it's the latter.

Hmm I usually catch these news items via 'best of today' from the BBC which I down load onto my ipod, clearly I'm even more out of touch than I imagined. I haven't seen CBeebies since we were last back in the summer but as far as I can see she has the perfect jolly face for such a post.Cheers

They were discussing the new presenter on Radio Two on Jeremy Vine yesterday. (Im normally a Radio One girl but someone sensible had left it on Two). It was an interesting discussion with the majority of people thinking it was a good move on the part of the BBC as a way of making children more aware/accepting of disability.

My Dad, with his multiple disabilities, in the 1990s was told he's not entitled to a power chair (or "electric chair" as we call it in the family!). My father does not have the strength to propel himself using a normal wheelchair, so he (and my mother, a right old battleaxe!) went to war with the local NHS. He has had a power chair for a good few years now. All it takes is persistence. and endless resources of mental strength to keep you going.